Lost our field shelter!!

[marsay]

My poor hubby, built me a field shelter as a surprise for Christmas, I was very touched as we bought some land but then didn't have money for a shelter and he put himself through hell to build it for me. I didn't have a clue what he was up to, such a wonderful surprise when I came home from offshore.

Sadly we went away for Christmas and it was all tied down but we had 70mph gusts and I'm afraid our tie down straps were just not enough, the wind smashed it to pieces, strange enough it is in the same place but totally destroyed. Weird to see how the wind did it, it looks like a giant sat on it!

Poor chap he is so devastated, but as I pointed out the horses were fine not hurt, if we had been there we could have been injured trying to stop it. But sadly we have no money to fix it so what was a big enough shelter for 2 horses and lovely finished off will now look more like a wind break for one.

What a shame, I just feel so bad for him and all his hard work, this is a chap who really dislikes my horses but tries hard to care for them because he knows it means a lot to me (mind you it does still cause the odd row)!!

Just to put a smile on your faces, in particular he hates horse kisses and can't see why we are all obsessed with kissing them, but my daughter said he had to give in yesterday as my highland wasn't giving up without one, she said he was getting annoyed trying to pick up all the shelter and Skye was getting in his way smacking her lips, dribbling in his ear so in the end he gave up gave her the fuss she wanted and kisses then gruffly pushed her away, my daughter was ending herself trying not to let on that he had been outmaneuvered by a slobbery kissing horse!! ;D

[gill]

Oh what a shame after all his hard work. This weather is the worst I have ever experienced my shelter is still standing but my field is a swamp.At least no one is hurt and thats the main thing .

[Mellymoo]

Oh that's such a shame! This weather has been mental

[holi]

oh that's awful - tell him we are thinking of him

[jen1]

I think the only way to anchor them is to concrete them in with telegraph poles, hope your ables to retreave something back, wagon bodies work well

[kafee]

That was lovely of him to do that, what a shame that it didn't survive very long. Can you salvage enough to rebuild it using a 3" x 3" fence post at each corner, or does it have to be moveable?

Failing that, a wind break is useful.

[sarahbing]

Oh what a shame - he must feel pretty fed up. Is any of it salvagable? A spring job when everything looks much more positive I think?

[marsay]

Yup he's started to rebuild it and he has managed to salvage quite a lot. We are in the middle of a planning application so we were trying to go mobile with it but it looks like the wind means we will have to use fence posts, he said he was going to try a lot more straps as we really don't want to piss of planning and the horses do need something now. He has calmed down anyway and the horses didn't get spooked which is good, I thought they might not use it again but seem to be assisting him no end, checking all the posts are strong enough as back rubs, you know what I mean Ha HA.